Fokker D.21 fighter for FSX

[fsxar177]

Nice article, and good screenshots there Frank!

 

[fsxar177]

Wanted to show-off a few more of this wonderful aircraft. Far exceeded expectations in every regard!
I'll be writing a review, and PIREP for those interested, soon.

 

[Tejal Bernardo]

Congrats, very cool aircraft

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

Everybody thanks for the enthusiasm and screenshots!

@Helifan123: thanks for your article!

 

[fsxar177]

75 years ago today, one of the great pioneers of aviation passed away. Anthony Fokker, the "Flying Dutchman", and founder of Fokker Aircraft. He died Dec. 23rd, 1939. Today I remember his work in tribute, and also acknowledge a pioneer of flight simulator aviation, Mr. Kaasjager. Thanks for bringing the D.XXI back to life!

I Completed my review of the Fokker D.XXI

-Joseph

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

Joseph, thank you very much for this review!

I wasn't aware of the date... But thanks for HU!

 

[Roel]

Finally back home and I had to try it right away!

It works perfectly in P3D V2.4! Thank you so much!

It feels at home in the Nevada Desert!

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

TP integration is underway. Made my first kill with the D.21, yeah!

 

[JP "Penz" Pedersen]

I have been busy the last month so I totally missed this release ...

Thanks a lot Daan, for the awesome aircraft and the paint kit as well; now I got no excuse for not attempting a Danish repaint!

(Happy new years' wishes too from sunny Jutland!).

 

[Deleted member 11333]

The Fokker has been nominated for the flusinews.de Freeware-Award. Vote here: http://www.flusinews.de/freeware-award-2014-die-abstimmung/

 

[Ed Akridge]

For sound and tracers read this post, it may offer some insight: http://forums.vrsimulations.com/forums/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=14749

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

Ok, thanks for that!

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

For the upcoming update V1.1: added new paints (by Huub Vink), added TacPack functionality and updated the model. One of the most apparent model upates are the instrument lights dimmers at either side of the windscreen, though not functional. By the way, I might consider to change the texture for the thing, not really satisfied yet.

TacPack functionality is also added. I didn't include tracer effect, since the Dutch army didn't use them, but I added the gun sound effects. I did this by harnessing Doug's sound gauge, which works fine.
To shoot, first one should pull out the 'Laden' and 'Zekeren' levers (image below), to unlock the guns. Triggering (AND round availability) triggers the gun and the sound effects.

 

[antaris]

Impressive work, Dutcheeseblend.

That kind of detail must cost you a lot of geometry; can I ask for your poly count?
Keep up the good work mate.

Cheers,
Sergio.

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

Thanks guys!

@antaris: my complete interior model counts about 46k verts, about 72k tris.

 

[antaris]

Awesome indeed! Thanks for that info.

Cheers,
Sergio.

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

Hi everybody,
One part of the D.21 cockpit is a fuseholder. These fuseholders were made by the French firm Ragonot, but no fuseholder is know to exist today. As an experiment, I revised and refined the 3D-model of the fuseholder, in order to print it. This is what the mesh looks like, I sent these 3 separate objects to Shapeways (www.shapeways.com).

And this is the resulting thing. Though the surface isn't perfect due to the plastic/printing structure, it is very accurate and exactly what I've been modelling. Fun to have it in your hands!

Regards, Daan

 

[fsxar177]

That's too cool! Well done..a piece of history!

 

[Brianguy100]

Awesome! If you keep going like this and print more knobs and levers you can make yourself a fokker d. 21 simpit

 

[Heretic]

Awesome! If you keep going like this and print more knobs and levers you can make yourself a fokker d. 21 simpit

I was thinking the same.